How to decorate a personal diary inside and outside: master class with video
A selection of ideas how to decorate your personal diary with your own hands and make a beautiful cover for it
In childhood and adolescence, many had a personal diary in which the most expensive and intimate was stated. You can not entrust such a thing even to the closest people. Very often the diary used ordinary notebooks or notebooks. To date, you can buy a ready-made version with a standard decor, but this does not compare with the self-made jewelry. Below are a few examples of how to decorate a personal diary with your own hands.
Cover from fabric
A nice decoration will come from a pleasant to the touch fabrics of bright colors. It will take several stretches of bright fabric, scissors and a needle.
1) Measure the sides of the diary, cut out strips a width equal to one-third the width of the diary cover, and a length equal to the width of the diary. Add to each side 2 cm at the seams. Sew three parts to make a solid canvas. The lateral seam should be treated with a "zigzag" seam.
2) Add the diary cover so that the right and left edges are bent inside. Bottom and top are pockets, in which you will need to put the diary cover and stitch it. The place of sewing can be marked with pins, so as not to err in the calculations.
3) Seal the top and bottom edge of the cover, bend by 1-2 cm and turn to the front. The cover is ready.
Skin Cover
You can make a stylish cover from leather or leatherette. Also, you will need decorative metal spikes, scissors, glue gun, hole punch.
1) Put the diary on a piece of skin, circle along the contour and add 4 cm on each side. Detail of a cut.
2) On the front side of the cover, make holes in the hole at an equal distance from each other, insert metal spikes into them.
3) It remains to insert the diary in the cover, grease the edges with glue and tuck in, wait until the glue dries. Done.
Diary for girls
A diary decorated with small envelopes for storing notes, laces or a miniature lock can become a gift for a little princess. The diary can also be decorated with applications made of paper, stamps, rhinestones, beads, ribbons and laces.
Other diary decorating options are well illustrated on the video:
There are so many ideas on how to decorate inside your personal diary, for example :
1) The decoration can be a picture that illustrates what is written. Or it could be a photograph.
2) Arrangement of the occurred events in the form of small schematic drawings.
3) Writing text with letters of different shapes and sizes, in different directions. So you can paint any facts, for example, about yourself.
4) Pockets on pages for dear to the heart of things( notes, tickets, small photos).
5) You can not only record thoughts and events, but also make out their photos, pictures, memorable things.
6) To come up with an interesting signature, put it at the end of each entry.
7) Use bright colored pens and pencils to make the diary not boring.
8) A good way of decorating are stickers.
9) The memory of the donated flowers will help to keep the dried twigs on the page of your personal diary.
10) Decorate diary pages with watercolors: smear and splatter. Over write the text. If the pages are thin, pre-glue them in two to make it neat.
11) You can make a personal diary not from a notebook or notebook, but from an old unnecessary book. It is advisable in the book to snatch every third page so that it is not too voluminous. Next, paint pages gouache, paste blank sheets for records, as well as various pictures and photos.
Thus, you can decorate the diary not only from the outside, but also inside.
Decorating the pages of the notebook is a very simple process, for this it is enough to fantasize and come up with interesting elements.
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In childhood and adolescence, many had a personal diary in which the most precious and confidential was stated. You can not entrust such a thing even to the closest people. Very often the diary used ordinary notebooks or notebooks. To date, you can buy a ready-made version with a standard decor, but this does not compare with the self-made jewelry. Below are a few examples of how to decorate a personal diary with your own hands.
Cover from fabric
A nice decoration will come from a pleasant to the touch fabrics of bright colors. It will take several stretches of bright fabric, scissors and a needle.
1) Measure the sides of the diary, cut out strips with a width equal to one third of the diary cover, and a length equal to the width of the diary. Add to each side 2 cm at the seams. Sew three parts to make a solid canvas. The lateral seam should be treated with a "zigzag" seam.
2) Add the diary cover so that the right and left edges are bent inside. Bottom and top are pockets, in which you will need to put the diary cover and stitch it. The place of sewing can be marked with pins, so as not to err in the calculations.
3) Seal the top and bottom edge of the cover, bend by 1-2 cm and turn it to the front. The cover is ready.
Skin Cover
You can make a stylish cover from leather or leatherette. Also, you will need decorative metal spikes, scissors, glue gun, hole punch.
1) Put the diary on a piece of skin, circle along the contour and add 4 cm on each side. Detail of a cut.
2) On the front side of the cover, make holes in the hole at an equal distance from each other, insert metal spikes into them.
3) It remains to insert the diary in the cover, grease the edges with glue and tuck in, wait until the glue dries. Done.
Diary for girls
A diary decorated with small envelopes for storing notes, laces or a miniature padlock can become a gift for a little princess. The diary can also be decorated with applications made of paper, stamps, rhinestones, beads, ribbons and laces.
Other diary decorating options are well illustrated on the video:
There are so many ideas on how to decorate inside your personal diary, for example :
1) The decoration can be a picture that illustrates what is written. Or it could be a photograph.
2) Arrangement of the occurred events in the form of small schematic drawings.
3) Writing text with letters of different shapes and sizes, in different directions. So you can paint any facts, for example, about yourself.
4) Pockets on pages for dear to the heart of things( notes, tickets, small photos).
5) You can not only record thoughts and events, but also make out their photos, pictures, memorable things.
6) To come up with an interesting signature, put it at the end of each entry.
7) Use bright colored pens and pencils so that the diary does not seem boring.
8) A good way of decorating are stickers.
9) The memory of the donated flowers will help to keep the dried twigs on the page of your personal diary.
10) Decorate diary pages with watercolors: smear and splatter. Over write the text. If the pages are thin, pre-glue them in two to make it neat.
11) You can make a personal diary not from a notebook or notebook, but from an old unnecessary book. It is advisable in the book to snatch every third page so that it is not too voluminous. Next, paint pages gouache, paste blank sheets for records, as well as various pictures and photos.
Thus, you can decorate the diary not only from the outside, but also inside.
Decorating the pages of the notebook is a very simple process, for this it is enough to fantasize and come up with interesting elements.